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Groninger Museum, Groningen
Year: | 2010 |
Location: | Groningen |
Architect: | Alessandro Mendini |
Designer: | Alessandro Mendini |
Client: | City council Groningen |
Project type: | architecture |
Product: | 1500 sq. m. ceramic tiles, each 1200 x 1200 mm, with decoration in 12 colours applied by silkscreen printing. |
Alessandro Mendini provided a new design for tiles of 1200 by 1200 mm, in which the form and colour combinations were different from the original design. The company had never before produced tiles of this size, and after a long period of development the design was applied to large ceramic plates by silkscreen printing. Both the architect and the museum management were extremely pleased with the result. One of the major advantages of ceramic tiles is the permanence of the colours. The new cladding can withstand the harmful effects of UV light and the environment, so that the radiant colours, one of the chief features of Alessandro Mendini’s design, remain undiminished. Mendini: “I wish I had met Koninklijke Tichelaar earlier in my life."